Now that you understand all of the important aspects in making orange juice, it
is time to put it all together in a play!

Here is the scenario or plot of the play:

Scenario:

It is prime orange growing season in Florida. All of a sudden, a huge storm
blows in and the temperatures drop from warm 85 degrees to below freezing
temperatures of 28 degrees. All orange growers know that frost will kill many of
their oranges. The farmers are lighting their smudge pots in the field that act
as portable heaters to try to warm up the crops. Look at this Internet site to
see what a smudge pot looks like.

All of the
orange growers are frantically trying to save their orange crops. Out in the
fields, the growers are losing a large portion of their crops. By the time the
storm leaves, the orange growers have lost 60 percent of their crops.

According to this chart, the majority of the crops were damaged by frost. Draw
your own chart, and color in the side that shows 60% crop loss. See if you can
make your chart look like an orange!

This terrible loss has impacted many more people than just the orange growers.
The loss of crops has impacted the growers, the field workers, the processing
plant workers, the transportation employees, the grocery store owners, and the
consumers.

Before beginning the play, write a sentence or two explaining how the crop loss
impacts each of the following people:

Mr. Gonzalez is the owner of an orange grove where he grows tons of oranges each
year.

Sally and Tom are workers who pick the oranges and run the large equipment that
is needed to harvest the oranges.

Mr. Tomara is in charge of the cleaning process of the oranges.

Several workers check each orange by hand for quality as the oranges pass by on a
conveyor belt.

Bob and Kim are in charge of making sure all of the pulp and seeds are removed
and recycled

Tai and Gina oversee the bottling process.

Karl is in charge of the trucking transportation company and he has several
drivers that work for him.